... totally new for you?

Well, you know, yeah, I, I look at it now m- as a much older person, you know, when, you know, mom and I still, you know, when she was still alive, and I would say to her, "Mom, you know, you've got PTSD, you've got anxiety, and you've got, you know, trauma that you've never dealt with.

I remember all of it as a kid, the trauma of you being assaulted by my father." So as much as I love my dad, I hate that she, he did that.

And mom having that mental breakdown in, in grade 12, and I was just like, "Okay, that's okay.

I've got my brothers.

Mom just needs a bit of time." So I remember going to my brother's house, and they all had a room in a three-bedroom house, but I had a mattress on the floor in the garage, and, um, with redback spiders, all that kinda stuff.

They're all graduated school, and I'm just still finishing it off.

Tell me about that.

a school camp in grade nine?

There was these like two, maybe the half weeks where all of the churches would get together and you paid like a gold coin or whatever it was to do these activities and stuff.

And I got to meet a lot of different kids from other different schools and all that kind of stuff.

And then I think, you know, I got involved with some, what I would have thought, popular kids.

And when I was in grade eight and nine, I got teased a lot because of my legs and how I walked.

And I tried so hard to not have a waddle, try to fix that gait.

And it was heartbreaking for me.

Tell me about